Giáo án Tiếng Anh 9 Global Success Unit 4 Skills 2

Anticipated difficulties

Solutions

1. Students may have underdeveloped listening skills.

- Play the recording many times if necessary.

- Encourage students to work in pairs, in groups so that they can help each other.

- Provide feedback and help if necessary.

2. Some students will excessively talk in the class.

- Define expectation in explicit detail.

- Have excessively talkative students practise.

- Continue to define expectations in small chunks (before every activity).

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

Option 1: Chatting

- Ask Ss what they know about schools and school days in the past. Elicit answer from them. Tell them to recall what they remember from books, films, or other sources.

– Lead into the new lesson: Listening and Writing about old school days.

– Introduce the objectives of the lesson. Write the objectives in the top-left corner of the board.

- Listen and answers

- Talk about schools and school days in the past.

Option 2: Compare and Contrast

- Have students create a Venn diagram to compare and contrast school days in the past and school days to day with information.

- Share their Venn diagrams with the class and disscuss similarities and differences between school days in the past and school days today.

- Listen and follow instructions.

Information Venn diagram:

- What students wore to school?

- What subjects students studied?

- How students got to school?

….…….

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

Task 1: Match each phrase with the right picture.

- Ss work in groups. Give them 2 – 3 min. to think and do the matching.

- Work in groups to do exercise

Suggested answers:

1. b

2. a

3. c

Task 2: Listen to the talk between Thanh and his grandma and tick (√) the things you hear.

- Tell Ss that they are going to listen to a conversation about school days in the past.

- Play the recording. Tell Ss to listen carefully and pay attention to key words – words that help them understand the ideas of the recording.

- Check ss answers.

- Listen and do exercise

- Listen and check

Answer key:

1. three-month summer holiday…√…

2. lessons in the morning only…√…

3. a lot of extra lessons……

4. walking barefoot…√…

5. chatting on mobile phones……

Task 3: Listen again. Choose the correct answer.

- Have Ss read through the sentences first.

- Play the recording once or twice. Ask Ss to listen carefully and choose the correct answers.

- Play the recording once more for Ss to check their answers.

- Listen instruction.

- Listen and choose answers.

- Listen and check

Answer key:

1. B

2. A

3. A

4. C

Audio-script

Thanh: Grandma, you say that you had three months for summer holiday when you were a pupil?

Grandma: Right. And we did lots of things during the summer.

Thanh: Wow, I wish we had a three-month summer holiday! Did you stay at school all day during the school year?

Grandma: No, we had lessons in the morning only.

Thanh: Did you have a lot of homework?

Grandma: Not a lot. And we never had extra lessons.

Thanh:Really? Did you study the same subjects as we do now?

Grandma:Yes and no. We didn’t have music and arts, or computer science.

Thanh: How did you go to school then?

Grandma: Well, we walked all the time. And we didn’t have shoes or sandals. We were walking barefoot.

Thanh: Poor you! But what did you do during break time? Did you chat with your friends or …?

Grandma:Yes, but … face-to-face. And we played traditional games such as hide-and- seek, tug of war, skipping, etc. There were no mobile phones or iPads then.

Thanh:Well, those were the days …

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

Task 4: Work in pairs. Ask and answer about school days in the past.

-Have Ss work in pairs. Tell them to use the cues given to ask and answer about school days in the past.

- Tell them they can refer to the listening text for their answers.

- Work in pairs to ask and answer about school days in the past.

Cues +

school time (When …)

+ study subjects (What …)

+ leisure time activities (What …)

+ summer holiday (How long …)

+ means of transport to school (How …)

Task 5: Write a paragraph (100 - 120 words) about school days in the past.

- Tell Ss to use the ideas in Activity 4 for their writing.

- Set a time limit for Ss to write the paragraph. Tell them to use the past tenses, and pay attention to grammar, use of words, spelling and punctuation.

- Write the paragraph

Sample paragraph:

In the past, students had lessons in the morning only. In the afternoon, they stayed home and did other things to help their parents. At school, they learned subjects such as maths, language, history, physics, etc.